Book

Little House books

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1932–1943, 1971

Harper & Brothers

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Argument

A Child's Primer for Liberty

Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series is the best introduction for a child to virtues indispensable to liberty.

by John O. McGinnis via Law & Liberty on April 20, 2023
Argument

Librarians without Chests: A Response to the ALSC’s Denigration of Laura Ingalls Wilder

A network of professional librarians seeks to destroy a beloved literary heroine and malign her creator.

by Dedra McDonald Birzer via National Review on June 26, 2018
Argument

Yes, ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is Racially Insensitive — But We Should Still Read It

Librarians are once again raising concerns over the book’s depiction of Native Americans.

by Caroline Fraser via Washington Post on May 13, 2018
Comment

Little Government in the Big Woods

Melissa Gilbert's lost bid for Congress and the forgotten political history of 'Little House on the Prairie.'

by Mary Pilon via Longreads on July 1, 2016

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The title card for Little House of a Prairie on a green hill.

50 Years Ago: America Loved a Little House

The beloved family show left a lasting legacy.

by Troy Brownfield via The Saturday Evening Post on September 11, 2024

Naomi Oreskes, sitting with her hands resting on her knees

America's Toxic Romance With the Free Market

How market fundamentalists convinced Americans to loathe government.

by Naomi Oreskes, Claudia Dreifus via The Nation on February 17, 2023

Mannequin modeling a prairie dress.

The Settler Fantasies Woven Into the Prairie Dresses

The fashion trend is shorn entirely of the racism and colonial entitlement it once cloaked.

by Peggy O'Donnell via Jezebel on January 30, 2019

Caroline and Charles Ingalls

Little House, Small Government

How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.

by Vivian Gornick via The New Republic on November 16, 2017

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